"Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.."

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Source : Naomi Ragen (2010). “Jephte's Daughter”, p.147, Macmillan

Naomi Ragen

#Book Quotes #Old Friends Quotes #Pages Quotes

“Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.”
“Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.”
“You start to stress yourself out about the people around you. You start to think, like, "What do you really want from me?" And then you forget that you, at some point, asked them for something. At some point you needed them to take you in because you ain't had nowhere to go. And now you turn around and question their loyalty to you, and those were the only people loyal to you. The only people that really loved you are still there, and you tanked on them. I'll never let that happen.”

Source : Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.
“Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No oneâ€™s hands are fast enough.”
“London is a bad habit one hates to lose.”

Source : William Sansom (1961). “Blue Skies, Brown Studies”
“There's the idea that you have to know how to solve the world's problems in order to feel that something is morally wrong. I'm always back and forth between optimism and depression about the situation.”
“I think in some way I wanted it to end, even if it meant my own destruction.”
“I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it's going to work out. Because even if other people don't like what you're doing, you're happy because you did what you believed in.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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